Speaker 1: After a night of partying in New Orleans, an angry
Speaker 1: friend lost control after what he heard.
Speaker 2: She did say that her husband forced her into having
Speaker 2: sex with her.
Speaker 1: When it was all over, one man was dead and
Speaker 1: another was in custody.
Speaker 3: There was a lot of alcohol it went on that night,
Speaker 3: and we believe probably drugs as well. I believe that's
Speaker 3: what led to the rage, which led to the shooting
Speaker 3: death of our husband.
Speaker 1: But when witness statements didn't match up with the evidence,
Speaker 1: investigators scrambled to understand what was true and what was not.
Speaker 2: And I just thought, this is not how I feel
Speaker 2: like this went down.
Speaker 1: And the investigation exposed more than just murder.
Speaker 4: How they pulled this off is the one thing that
Speaker 4: amazes me today.
Speaker 1: We're just outside of New Orleans for part one of
Speaker 1: the Louisiana Love Triangle. I'm Sloane Glass and vis is
Speaker 1: American Homicide. Just a note that this episode contained some
Speaker 1: graphic content. Please take care while listening. On the other
Speaker 1: side of Lake Pontatrain is the charming and quiet suburb
Speaker 1: of Covington, Louisiana.
Speaker 3: Covent's the last bedroom community is close in your Orleans.
Speaker 3: So you've got the convenience of the city if you
Speaker 3: need it with everything that goes with that.
Speaker 1: Doug Arrowood is a former detective with the Covington Police Department.
Speaker 1: You'll notice an accent. Detective Airwood was born in the UK,
Speaker 1: but moved to the States and lived here on and
Speaker 1: off throughout his life. It's a unique background for a
Speaker 1: local detective.
Speaker 3: It's a city where you have almost mentioned that you
Speaker 3: see in magazines and see on TV and they make
Speaker 3: you jaw drop. But you also have rapport areas of
Speaker 3: town where people live in little shacks that you wouldn't
Speaker 3: think chickens would want to live in. So it's got
Speaker 3: everything from a to Z.
Speaker 1: As people grow up and out of the party atmosphere
Speaker 1: of New Orleans nearby, Covington is a great place to
Speaker 1: art and raise a family if.
Speaker 3: You want a quieter atmosphere, a slower pace of life,
Speaker 3: very friendly folks here about. It's a great place to live.
Speaker 3: You can spend any amount of time here. When you
Speaker 3: bump into somebody that you've not met before, within five
Speaker 3: or ten minutes, you've already got ties with them.
Speaker 1: That sort of camaraderie gives the city of Covington a
Speaker 1: small town feel that.
Speaker 3: What's what makes it so interesting, Especially as a police officer.
Speaker 3: You've got that nature of everybody knows everybody, so it
Speaker 3: is a pretty good chance when something happens, you know
Speaker 3: who did that, that's all so and so, and you
Speaker 3: know which way to start looking, which is helpful.
Speaker 1: On the morning of December eleventh, two thousand and four,
Speaker 1: Covington Police dispatcher Heather Jenkins was wrapping up after working
Speaker 1: the overnight shift.
Speaker 2: We were getting off at six in the morning and
Speaker 2: right at shift change, nine to one one phone rang.
Speaker 2: The report was that someone hanked a horn and that
Speaker 2: this gentleman came outside and there were gunshots.
Speaker 1: The call came from a worried resident.
Speaker 2: We did not have a lot of crime in that subdivision.
Speaker 2: When we did, it would be things like a mailbox
Speaker 2: got smashed or you know, loud noise complaints, that type
Speaker 2: of crime.
Speaker 1: Within a minute, another call came in, and then another.
Speaker 2: We had seven regular lines into nine one one lines,
Speaker 2: and more calls started coming in that there were gun
Speaker 2: shots and that someone actually was down and had been shot.
Speaker 1: With each phone call, more details emerged about the shooting.
Speaker 2: This neighbor could see that someone had been shot and
Speaker 2: was laying in the driveway.
Speaker 1: That someone was Thomas Tally, who lived on Gratitude Drive
Speaker 1: with his wife, Kendra, and their two year old son.
Speaker 2: There were other people calling to say that Kendra Tally
Speaker 2: was outside yelling for help.
Speaker 1: And neighbors reported seen a gold colored Chevy truck flee
Speaker 1: the scene. As Kendra cradled Thomas on the driveway. He
Speaker 1: was bloodied and wounded, wearing only his pajamas.
Speaker 2: Kendra Tally was just basically there kind of freaking out.
Speaker 1: Anyone would freak out. Imagine how difficult it was for
Speaker 1: Kendra to hold her dying husband in her arms. And
Speaker 1: that happened just as Covington police and emergency responders arrived
Speaker 1: at the Tally's home.
Speaker 2: The Ambulance Service did arrive and try to save him,
Speaker 2: but they were not able. Mister Tally was deceased there
Speaker 2: in the driveway.
Speaker 1: The only good news for the investigation was that Thomas's wife, Kendra,
Speaker 1: witnessed the whole ordeal.
Speaker 2: This poor woman has just watched her husband be gunned down.
Speaker 2: You know, how can we work this situation to get
Speaker 2: this resolved.
Speaker 1: Here's Detective Doug Arrowood describing the scene.
Speaker 3: At that point in time. I believe there were four
Speaker 3: of as detectives and once she got a case of
Speaker 3: that magnitude, all hands on deck, everybody's coming out, so
Speaker 3: we're all called out, and there had been a body
Speaker 3: just laid out on the drive.
Speaker 1: Work next to Thomas's body. Detectives found shards of glass,
Speaker 1: some spent shell casinges, and of course a devastated Kendra.
Speaker 3: I recall her being obviously very upset, hugging her husband,
Speaker 3: saying keep breathing, stay with me, stay with me, and
Speaker 3: wors to that effect.
Speaker 1: Kendra Tally was twenty four years old at the time.
Speaker 1: She was short and petite, with dark reddish hair.
Speaker 3: She was obviously a mess. She looked like she'd been
Speaker 3: out for a couple of nights, which you could probably
Speaker 3: say that somebody's been through something as traumatic as that,
Speaker 3: they're probably going to fold to pieces pretty quickly.
Speaker 1: The one good thing about Kendra Tally witnessing her husband
Speaker 1: being shot was that she could tell the detectives what happened.
Speaker 1: Kendra said the shooter was no stranger, but rather a
Speaker 1: good friend of her and her her husband, a man
Speaker 1: named Tommy Row. Now it gets a little confusing here
Speaker 1: because both The husband and the shooter have similar names,
Speaker 1: so keep in mind that Kendra's husband was Thomas Tally
Speaker 1: and the shooter was.
Speaker 3: Tommy Row Tommy Roll. He'd been a friend of the family.
Speaker 3: They'd known each other quite some time.
Speaker 1: Tommy Roll lived about thirty miles north of Covington in
Speaker 1: rural Buggaloosa. He had three children and was very close
Speaker 1: with Kendra and Thomas. They spent a lot of time
Speaker 1: together and they had known Tommy Row for years. Even
Speaker 1: their children all played together.
Speaker 3: Tommy Roll had left the scene and gone to his
Speaker 3: house as the.
Speaker 1: Police search for Tommy Row. Detectives questioned Kendra. She said
Speaker 1: that she, Tommy Rowll and some other friends had been
Speaker 1: out on Bourbon Street while her husband stayed home.
Speaker 3: Her husband that day had had oral surgery. He's at
Speaker 3: home recovering. He just had both wisdom teeth out in
Speaker 3: the bottom. For those that have had the wisdom teeth out,
Speaker 3: they know it takes a couple of days to recover
Speaker 3: from that. And he was in some discomfort. He was
Speaker 3: under medication.
Speaker 1: So what happened on Bourbon Street that caused Tommy Raw
Speaker 1: to go to his friend's house and gun him down?
Speaker 3: There was a lot of alcohol. It went on that night,
Speaker 3: and we believe, uh probably drugs as well. And because
Speaker 3: of the drugs, I believe that's what led to the rage,
Speaker 3: which led to the shooting death of her husband, Thomas Telly.
Speaker 1: So here's what a devastated Kendra told detectives. Just after
Speaker 1: the bars closed, Tommy Row went into a murderous rage
Speaker 1: and took it out on her husband.
Speaker 3: He was going to take care of businesses.
Speaker 1: What Kendra said, the Covington PD turned their attention to
Speaker 1: finding the shooter. It was a pretty simple case, but
Speaker 1: Tommy Roll was long gone by then.
Speaker 3: He got on a struck and he left. So once
Speaker 3: we kind of established that we had the victim's wife
Speaker 3: here and we had that locked down with them, went
Speaker 3: to try and find the repartrator.
Speaker 1: The police believe Tommy Row was hiding out at his
Speaker 1: home in a wooded area of Bugaloosa about half an
Speaker 1: hour away.
Speaker 3: He was armed, probably dangerous after what we discovered, so
Speaker 3: we wanted to take all precautions. We've got the Sheriff's
Speaker 3: office involved, We've got the SWAT team involved.
Speaker 1: With Kendra's help, more than a dozen law enforcement officers
Speaker 1: spent that early Saturday morning on a manhunt for an
Speaker 1: out of control killer.
Speaker 3: If you're not careful, you can be led in that
Speaker 3: wrong direction. You need to take it one step at
Speaker 3: a time and make sure that you're going in the
Speaker 3: right direction. You know what's happening that I felt was
Speaker 3: going to be the most pivotal moment of the case.
Speaker 1: As the sun rose and Covington Tommy Raw showed up
Speaker 1: at his best friend's house and opened fire on him.
Speaker 4: This happened two weeks exactly to the day before Christmas Day.
Speaker 1: Mark Kelly woke up to learn his younger brother Thomas
Speaker 1: was gone. Here's Mark.
Speaker 4: Kendro's sister in law started calling me about six in
Speaker 4: the morning and she said Thomas had been shot. He
Speaker 4: was shot in the driveway. She said, I think he's dead.
Speaker 4: I'm pretty sure he's dead. I think he's dead. And
Speaker 4: you just imagine him barefoot and pajamas laying on his
Speaker 4: concrete driveway with blood around him. Yeah, that does a
Speaker 4: number on you, and so I have to I just
Speaker 4: shut everything off. I shut my phone off, I shut
Speaker 4: the TV, the radio off. I just I just needed
Speaker 4: to be alone at that time.
Speaker 1: As you can imagine, it was an awful day for Mark.
Speaker 4: He was my younger brother by a little over five years.
Speaker 1: When they were kids, Mark said Thomas was the typical
Speaker 1: younger brother, always followed him around.
Speaker 4: Me and Thomas had a lot of similar interests. We
Speaker 4: tinkered a lot with stuff. We weren't into the whole
Speaker 4: hunting fishing thing. We did like to trek through the
Speaker 4: woods and just goof off and play around Thomas. He
Speaker 4: was on on a roll in school for several years.
Speaker 4: Very sweet kid. Same with Kendra.
Speaker 1: Kendra and Thomas met a few years earlier while working
Speaker 1: at the local pizza hut.
Speaker 4: He was a delivery person, she worked inside, and sparks
Speaker 4: happened and they went from there. He called me one
Speaker 4: time said, remember the girl, Kendra said, now she wants
Speaker 4: to go out with me. So I was happy for
Speaker 4: him because I knew the kind of person. She was
Speaker 4: very bubbly and energetic and happy, and she was very
Speaker 4: pleasant to be around, and I think that's what Thomas
Speaker 4: liked in her.
Speaker 1: The two eventually got married and had a.
Speaker 4: Baby boy, and then everything after that fell in the place.
Speaker 1: Most recently, Thomas worked as a courier.
Speaker 4: Thomas was working two jobs, sometimes another job after that
Speaker 4: to support his family.
Speaker 1: And becoming a husband, father, and provider were rules that
Speaker 1: Thomas embraced.
Speaker 4: He'd always wanted that. He was kind of like me,
Speaker 4: settled down type.
Speaker 1: Although Thomas was six years older than Kendra, it didn't
Speaker 1: make a difference.
Speaker 4: At first. I didn't think she was motherhood material, but
Speaker 4: she was very good.
Speaker 1: It's understandable given that Kendra went from a girl barely
Speaker 1: out of her teens to mother and wife.
Speaker 4: She still had that in her, the party girl type,
Speaker 4: but that did not hurt her from being a great mother.
Speaker 1: Mark had last seen Kendra and his brother a couple
Speaker 1: weeks earlier at Thanksgiving dinner.
Speaker 4: We all were together and she cooked a mean Thanksgiving dinner.
Speaker 4: We all had a great time. Kender was happy, Thomas
Speaker 4: was happy. But three weeks later, Boom Thomas had been shot.
Speaker 4: It sends shockwaves.
Speaker 1: Even more shocking was that Thomas's best friend, Tommy Row,
Speaker 1: had pulled the trigger.
Speaker 4: That was one thing I struggled with. You're sad, then
Speaker 4: you're this, then you're angry. I went through all that
Speaker 4: all day. It was terrible.
Speaker 1: Law enforcement was on the lookout for an armed and
Speaker 1: dangerous Tommy Row.
Speaker 4: I basically Barrick hated myself in my house.
Speaker 1: Think about it. This was somebody they were all friends with.
Speaker 1: Mark was scared. He didn't know what Tommy would do
Speaker 1: next or where.
Speaker 4: He was, and they went to go look for him.
Speaker 4: That had the whole slot team.
Speaker 1: Heather Jenkins was a local nine one one dispatcher.
Speaker 2: When Kendre Tally told the investigator who the shooter was,
Speaker 2: we notified the sheriff's department and they activated their SWAT
Speaker 2: team because she had told the investigator that he was
Speaker 2: kind of a conspiracy theorist and had cameras outside of
Speaker 2: his home and blackout curtains and lots of guns and
Speaker 2: just very kind of a scary guy.
Speaker 1: The police found the gold colored Chevy truck that Tommy
Speaker 1: Row was driving parked outside of his home in Bugalusa. Covington,
Speaker 1: where the crime took place, has a low crime rate
Speaker 1: compared to the national average. Meanwhile, Buggaloosa has one of
Speaker 1: the highest crime rates in the country.
Speaker 2: He was at home and had evidently barricaded himself in
Speaker 2: the home. That was afraid that it was going to
Speaker 2: turn into a big standoff with this guy, and they
Speaker 2: were out there for you know, a while at.
Speaker 1: The time, Tommy was thirty six years old and on
Speaker 1: probation after being charged with cocaine possession.
Speaker 2: There was a real concern that he was not going.
Speaker 1: To give up.
Speaker 5: His sister apparently called him up and did the cops
Speaker 5: or come up to carry you and you take care
Speaker 5: of yourself.
Speaker 1: Jack Hofstat worked for the District Attorney's office.
Speaker 5: According to him, he put all the guns in a bed,
Speaker 5: loaded them up, and that he was even shoot it
Speaker 5: out with him because he didn't want to die.
Speaker 1: You'd think if he didn't want to die, he would surrender,
Speaker 1: But Tommy wasn't your typical character. He was an avid
Speaker 1: outdoorsman who liked to hunt and fish. He owned numerous weapons,
Speaker 1: and the police weren't taking any chances. The tents stand
Speaker 1: off with Tommy Row went on for nearly four hours
Speaker 1: until one of the officers made a breakthrough.
Speaker 5: His job is to get somebody out of the house
Speaker 5: without having to kill him, and he finally gets Tommy
Speaker 5: on the telephone and Tommy tells him immediately without being asked,
Speaker 5: that he had killed somebody.
Speaker 1: Tommy Row's guilty conscience got the best of him, Fest
Speaker 1: to killing his friend Thomas Tally when the officer on
Speaker 1: the other end heard this, he purposefully denied that Thomas
Speaker 1: Tally was dead.
Speaker 5: He says, no, no, he didn't kill anybody, He just wounded.
Speaker 1: The officer hoped that by saying Thomas Tally was wounded
Speaker 1: and not dead, that Tommy would peacefully surrender.
Speaker 5: He didn't tell him anything he could to get him
Speaker 5: out of the house where at somebody else.
Speaker 1: Getting hurt, and thankfully it worked.
Speaker 5: He eventually came out and then they arrested.
Speaker 1: Him with Tommy Rowlan custody. Detective searched his house for evidence,
Speaker 1: and the inside looked like a junkyard.
Speaker 5: They went up and got the guns and Kendra's cell phone,
Speaker 5: which had numerous phone calls from her husband trying to
Speaker 5: find out where she was and when she was coming home,
Speaker 5: and his notebook with a suicide note in it.
Speaker 1: Tommy really was planning on killing himself. He had penned
Speaker 1: a suicide note in it. He speaks to his relationship
Speaker 1: with Kendra. Here's one part of it. I also want
Speaker 1: my mother to know that I love her with all
Speaker 1: my heart and Kendra just as much or more. I
Speaker 1: just hope Kendra can forgive me for what I have done.
Speaker 1: I also hope Kendra will always know how much I
Speaker 1: love her and what she means to me. I just
Speaker 1: can't sit around and watch her being hurt all the time.
Speaker 1: Love always, Tommy. Tommy Rawll confessed to two things, being
Speaker 1: in love with his best friend's wife and killing him.
Speaker 1: The Covington police charged him with murder.
Speaker 4: I still remember the vivid pictures of the camera crew
Speaker 4: when they arrested him, putting him in the patrol car.
Speaker 1: It was all so shocking for Thomas's brother Mark.
Speaker 4: It's so rare to have a shooting murder, especially the
Speaker 4: way it was done here on the north shore of
Speaker 4: Lake Pont Train stuff like that's not supposed to happen here,
Speaker 4: and that's what made unfortunately the biggest news, not my
Speaker 4: brother dying, but that because no one gets killed here.
Speaker 1: As the police search Tommy Row's home, they uncovered evidence
Speaker 1: which to them pointed to his long running obsession with Kendra.
Speaker 1: There was that strange suicide slash love note, along with pictures,
Speaker 1: including a family photo. But here's the strange part. The
Speaker 1: photo was of Tommy with Kendra and Kendra's son.
Speaker 4: That seems to be a little off to me.
Speaker 1: Tommy Row often hung out with Thomas and Kendra. He
Speaker 1: was a regular at many of the Tally's parties and barbecues,
Speaker 1: and his three children often played with the Tally son.
Speaker 4: All I know is he worked with Thomas installing car
Speaker 4: stereos carl arms back in the day. I think he
Speaker 4: worked at Pizza Hut, I think where him and Kendra met.
Speaker 1: In Mark's mind, Tommy Row was just one of the
Speaker 1: many friends the couple had.
Speaker 4: He comes off as a pleasant person, but he only
Speaker 4: will talk to you if you ask him a question.
Speaker 4: I'm not gonna be judgmental, but it just seemed a
Speaker 4: little odd.
Speaker 1: Tommy's deadly obsession with Kendra appeared to be a slam
Speaker 1: dunk for prosecutors. They had a confession and eyewitness and
Speaker 1: plenty of incriminating physical evidence.
Speaker 4: He still cared about her, and almost in an overwhelming way.
Speaker 4: My gut feeling was saying, something's not right. I still
Speaker 4: think he had a thing for Candor after Thomas got
Speaker 4: married to her, and I think that always stopped.
Speaker 1: But the results of Thomas Talley's autopsy would throw a
Speaker 1: wrench in everything. Just before sunrise on December eleventh, two
Speaker 1: thousand and four, Thomas Tally was gunned down in his
Speaker 1: driveway in Covington, Louisiana. A few hours later, his killer,
Speaker 1: Tommy Row, who had been his best friend, was in custody.
Speaker 1: Jack Hofstat worked for the District Attorney's office.
Speaker 4: We have very few murders.
Speaker 5: Most murders that we have are what I call business disputes.
Speaker 5: One drug dealer killing another, or somebody's robbing a drug
Speaker 5: dealer because they've got the money. And every once in
Speaker 5: a while we have something like the Raal Tally case,
Speaker 5: which it really doesn't fit in with the norm.
Speaker 1: In addition to murder, Tommy also faced a drug possession charge.
Speaker 1: Police had found crystal meth inside his truck. His case
Speaker 1: appeared to be open and shut until the result of
Speaker 1: Thomas Tally's autopsy came back.
Speaker 5: The pathologist, the medical examiner, is the one that decides
Speaker 5: exactly what killed him.
Speaker 1: That report stated that Thomas Tally was shot in the chest, hip, head,
Speaker 1: and groin area a total of six times. But the
Speaker 1: detective's job got a whole lot harder when the report
Speaker 1: listed the origin of those six bullets two different tests.
Speaker 5: One was a RUGU nine milimeter, the other was a
Speaker 5: LAMA forty five.
Speaker 1: Okay. The fact that the victim took bullets from two
Speaker 1: different guns, well, that changed the entire investigation.
Speaker 5: Se We shot four times with the nine milimeter and
Speaker 5: two with the forty five. The first shots to none
Speaker 5: milimeter shots were shot in a downward pattern, but they
Speaker 5: weren't close shots. They were at least thirty six inches apart.
Speaker 5: The last two shots were directly standing over and the ones.
Speaker 3: Are the forty five.
Speaker 1: Okay, So here's what that means. Four bullets were fired
Speaker 1: from inside Tommy's truck and two bullets from a different
Speaker 1: gun were fired outside the truck.
Speaker 3: We had multiple gun shot wounds and two calibers. When
Speaker 3: you have two calibers, you know you have two guns.
Speaker 1: It was up to detectives to figure out who fired
Speaker 1: the second gun. Was it someone else or did Tommy
Speaker 1: fire both guns? Here's Detective Doug Arrowood.
Speaker 3: In reality, that's usually not the case unless you've got
Speaker 3: the old Wild West one gun in each hand. People
Speaker 3: are not at all comfortable with shooting on an everyday basis.
Speaker 3: Very very few people up.
Speaker 1: The only other person law enforcement knew of who had
Speaker 1: been at the crime scene was Kendra. She had already
Speaker 1: talked to the detectives right after witnessing her husband being
Speaker 1: shot to death in the driveway of their home.
Speaker 3: She was definitely worse for work, so to speak. But
Speaker 3: given the circumstances, you've got to say that's understandable in
Speaker 3: a very traumatic time. Maybe there's something that she missed.
Speaker 3: Maybe there's something she could tell us that would either
Speaker 3: say yes I did it or no I didn't, and
Speaker 3: here's why, and we'd say, you know what, you have
Speaker 3: a point, you're good to go. So she agreed to
Speaker 3: come in within attorney, I'm agree to talk to us.
Speaker 1: Kendra held the key to what happened and had been
Speaker 1: so helpful to the investigation. So the detective had Kendra
Speaker 1: walk him through what happened that night one more time.
Speaker 3: She was telling me about how she was abused by
Speaker 3: her husband.
Speaker 1: At the time, Kendra told the detective that her husband, Thomas,
Speaker 1: had sexually assaulted her a few weeks earlier. On tape,
Speaker 1: Kendra said, he forced himself on her and did some
Speaker 1: things he had never done before.
Speaker 3: I didn't think there was a lot of love lost
Speaker 3: in this marriage. Maybe there wasn't a lot of love
Speaker 3: at all in this marriage.
Speaker 1: Kendra explained that in the hours leading up to Thomas's murder,
Speaker 1: Kendra and Tommy grabbed breakfast after their night on Bourbon Street.
Speaker 3: They went to a local all night establishment waffle house
Speaker 3: and they were sitting there eating and she claimed that
Speaker 3: he pressed her, saying something wrong. What is it? What
Speaker 3: is it?
Speaker 1: And that's when Kendra first shared her secret about how
Speaker 1: her husband had sexually assaulted her.
Speaker 3: She said, okay, well, this is what happened, but you know,
Speaker 3: please forgive him. It's not that big a deal.
Speaker 1: But it was a big deal for Tommy. He loved
Speaker 1: Kendra and he was furious and he.
Speaker 3: Went into a rage and says, that's it. He loved
Speaker 3: her so much he didn't want to see anything happening
Speaker 3: to her, so that was it. He was going to
Speaker 3: go and take care of business.
Speaker 1: Tommy rouse stormed out of the restaurant. Kendra followed and
Speaker 1: found him in his truck, and she said she'd tried
Speaker 1: to calm him down because she feared he was going
Speaker 1: to hurt her husband.
Speaker 3: She talk to him out of it and she thought
Speaker 3: everything was okay.
Speaker 1: Kendra and Tommy drove to his house, where she says
Speaker 1: he seemed to.
Speaker 3: Cool off, but they got to his house, he got
Speaker 3: into more of a rage. Then he locked her in
Speaker 3: the truck.
Speaker 4: She said.
Speaker 1: Tommy grabbed her cellphone, ran into his house, and returned
Speaker 1: with two guns. Now armed and dangerous, Tommy drove them
Speaker 1: back to Covington. Kendra said she had never seen Tommy
Speaker 1: like that and feared the worst.
Speaker 3: She said she was kicking him and resisting to the
Speaker 3: fullest extent, begging him not to do what he was
Speaker 3: going to do.
Speaker 1: When the two arrived at Kendra's house, her husband heard
Speaker 1: the sound of Tommy's horn and walked outside. Kendra said
Speaker 1: she screamed for him to go back inside, and that's
Speaker 1: when Tommy row grabbed a gun and opened fire on
Speaker 1: him from inside the truck. Kendra then exited the vehicle
Speaker 1: and ran to get help, but Tommy wasn't finished.
Speaker 3: He got out, went around the truck, and he put
Speaker 3: a couple in him, just to finish him off, just
Speaker 3: to make sure. But the more you look at this,
Speaker 3: the more you say things aren't adding up.
Speaker 1: That's probably what you were thinking too. A few key
Speaker 1: details of Kendras's story stuck out.
Speaker 3: She was telling me during the interview about how he
Speaker 3: with one hand drove one curvy windy roads in the
Speaker 3: middle of the night, and with the other hand tied
Speaker 3: her up and then tied her to the steering wheel.
Speaker 3: Can you imagine tying somebody to the steering wheel of
Speaker 3: a vehicle. Every time you turn a corner, they're going
Speaker 3: to be a new lap and then they're going to
Speaker 3: be off to the side again.
Speaker 1: And speaking of the truck, remember how Kendra said Tommy
Speaker 1: locked her in his truck.
Speaker 3: Sure, I've known plenty of people be locked out of
Speaker 3: a vehicle. I've helped him get into their vehicle when
Speaker 3: their key's been sitting in there. I've never known somebody
Speaker 3: been locked in a vehicle unless they were an infant
Speaker 3: in a cradle and couldn't get out, or unless it
Speaker 3: was a dog.
Speaker 1: Her husband, Thomas's funeral was scheduled for December fifteenth, two
Speaker 1: thousand and four, but that morning, Kendra was a no
Speaker 1: show at the service.
Speaker 5: Was arrested, and she was charged. She was charged of
Speaker 5: the principals of the mardle.
Speaker 1: Just before her husband's funeral, the police arrested Kendra Tally
Speaker 1: and charged her with being the principal to his murder.
Speaker 3: We had a pretty good idea of the evidence that
Speaker 3: We found at the scene that she was involved in
Speaker 3: this and not just a victim.
Speaker 1: Was Kendra the other shooter or was someone else involved?
Speaker 1: The police were about to hear a whole different side
Speaker 1: to this story.
Speaker 5: We had two peoples tell and two different stories. We're
Speaker 5: trying to figure out which story is true.
Speaker 1: In Part two of the Louisiana Love Triangle, just as
Speaker 1: Thomas Tally was laid to rest, we'll learn how two
Speaker 1: lovers turned on each other to save themselves. I'm Sloane Glass.
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